Gang is jailed for steal­ing boxes of jeans

Four men have been sen­tenced to a year in jail fol­lowed by de­por­ta­tion for steal­ing Dhs338,000 worth of jeans. Dubai Court of First In­stance was told the Pak­ista­nis, aged be­tween 28 and 52, prised open a lock to ac­cess a ware­house in Ras Al Khor at 2am on March 2. The gang then made off with 141 boxes con­tain­ing 6,768 pairs of jeans. A 52-year-old In­dian busi­ness­man who owns the ware­house said he had im­ported the cloth­ing from In­dia and was stor­ing them at the site. The owner said he ar­rived at the ware­house in the morn­ing to find the place in a mess and the boxes of jeans miss­ing.